Marked for Modestas Cernych
From our football correspondent
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Squad14 Sep 2026
Tomas Cernych breaks a bone — 66 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Žygimantas Baltrūnas has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Atlantas have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Squad14 Sep 2026
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Edgaras Mikoliunas is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Atlantas game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Zalgiris runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Atlantas march on in the cup
Trakai are out and Atlantas go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A brace, and Edvinas Lasickas takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Edvinas Lasickas provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Atlantas, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 58 days on the sidelines for Linas Kuklys, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Linas Jankauskas was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Atlantas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. José Acosta is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Modestas Cernych for 15 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Atlantas will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Market24 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Ignas Klimavicius may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market24 Aug 2026
Atlantas bring in an old head
José Acosta is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Atlantas through in the cup
A 1‑0 win over Kauno Zalgiris, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Dilshod Jo'rayev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
44 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.85 on the card, and the Atlantas support went home talking about one name.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tomas Klimavicius falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market17 Aug 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Darius Lasickas has his answer from Atlantas; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 7. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Atlantas have let the market know Modestas Cernych can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aleksandrs Jurkovskis and Atlantas agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dilshod Jo'rayev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.